Hello,
For some programming task I need to Ping a Linux machine from a windows machine
Please help me how can i do that when,
1)Both the system are on different network
2)Both the system are on same network.

Linux :- Ubantu 14.4
Windows :- WIN 7

Thanks

First, read the "Question Guidelines" link in my posting signature...we are happy to HELP, but you have to show some actual effort of your own. Also, posting a verbatim homework question with no effort will get you nothing in the way of help either.

And the operating system has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with a ping...you say "programming task"...but don't tell us what language, where this is going to run, etc. A ping is an ICMP request...that's all. Doesn't matter what's on the other end. Show us what you've done/tried and tell us where you're stuck.

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OK, where is the hidden camera at?

Smell bait, do you?

Awright ... awright ... let's puh-leauze try to address this poor soul's question "quasi-seriously."

The ping command, fairly-obviously, is supposed to be "operating-system agnostic." Each operating system is expected to provide its own particular implementation of that command, such that, well, "it works!"

Likewise, each operating system is expected to respond to an incoming 'ping' (if it chooses to do so ...) in the appropriate way.

Therefore, "the crux of the (ahem ... h-o-m-e-w-o-r-k(!!) ) question" is this: "'different network,' or 'same network?'"

"Yeah, it is a trick(!) question, and intended(!) so to be!"

Therefore ... (in the noble tradition of "homework") ... I leave you with this thought-question: "(Exactly) what is 'the same', versus 'different'?"

T-h-a-t is what the author of the original question intended for you to focus-on ... "and it is a very-crucial question, indeed!" Therefore, I shall purposely stop short of herewith supplying the answer. (And, in so doing, I do not(!) "mean to be coy.")

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Don't use ping, but use the Packet Internet Gopher. see how it goes.

You can always do in Windows like: ping 1.2.3.4 or continuous ping, ping 1.2.3.4 -t

Or in Linux ping 1.2.3.4 -continuous ping; ping -c 3 1.2.3.4 (ping 3 times)

Good luck!

Yes...but this is 'for some programming task'...which the OP doesn't expound on at all. Not platform, language, or post any of their code/ideas/efforts.